[the fog on great big gauzy wheels rolls in,] by TheCheshireKat, literature
Literature
[the fog on great big gauzy wheels rolls in,]
the fog on great big gauzy wheels rolls in,
patient and deliberate,
worrying about nothing or no one,
going it's slow and graceful way
softly and silently.
it seems almost to be a ghost,
travelling in another realm-
visible, but only just,
and as intangible as the memory
of a whisper.
you cannot touch it,
though it may touch you.
who has not reached out a hand
half-expecting to grab a fist full of gossamer?
but you catch nothing, and
it moves on without you.
and yet
did you not feel airy fingers
trailing down your arm?
the flowers of chaos by TheCheshireKat, literature
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the flowers of chaos
swept up in the wake of a silver Lincoln Towncar,
we are the flowers of chaos
plucked and scattered, thrown to the wind
with our beautiful bruised petals,
drinking water that tastes of propane-
but it will be alright in the end,
the dust in our lungs will crystallize
and we will be like geodes, reverse Galateas,
rejecting our design in favor of the formless soul,
so eat the fruit! drink the nectar! pass around
the bottle of wine, reborn from the womb of friendship,
we are the sum and the equation of being, we are
the gods and goddesses, we are all brothers and sisters here,
so let us share. i am Athene! i am Aphrodite!
above us,
the sky is a wound
and we stumble around
with ragged hands
knuckles busted
and bleeding
we must all die upon the sword
whether the sword is fire
or ice, or zombie teeth.
("Whose grave's this, sirrah?")
above us,
butterflies singing a silent hymn,
moths our pall-bearers,
the raven our gravedigger,
the trees our headstones,
their roots our casket
and we shall flee the clay-
we shall burst the gate
and dance unafraid.
("I think it be thine, indeed;")
below us,
a chorus of echoes
sweet and easily forgotten
casting us like a breeze
to dandelion seeds
out into the universe
and we will realize
that the trumpets h
the well-beloved soul by TheCheshireKat, literature
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the well-beloved soul
Jenny-
her throat wreathed in smoke and flowering stars,
her blue eyes like amethyst lavender,
her gaze like an expertly crafted sword,
beautiful and deadly-
a swan on the River Styx,
an eagle on the Rainbow Bridge,
a savior and destroyer,
lovely and terrible,
as eternity
crumbles.
old photographs
in the kitchen drawers of my soul;
silver spoons on the bedside table.
Mother Earth, Sister Moon, Brother Sun.
we are all of us knit together, the Invisible Red Cord
which binds everything, stitching up the wounds of our hearts
and painting over the wallpaper as the ages steal away
what foreign centuries have we visited in dream
i feel oddly geommetrical by TheCheshireKat, literature
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i feel oddly geommetrical
i feel oddly geommetrical
cylindrical
centrifugal
an attack of quadratics
made out of mathematics
it's practically automatic
i feel these equations in my bones.
how clever that they're in boxes
the panels of comics
drawn by Quesada
or the cycles of figures
black-suited dirgers
and a poison Black Mamba
better go tell your mama
you won't be back anymore.
down the rocky road to Dublin
and the cauldron is bubblin'
with a sticky green brew
see a dragon in the smoke
hear the poison toads croak
so slather on that medicated goo
'cause baby you know it's good for you
as you're walkin' down that long and winding r
seven years later, my eyes blur with tears and i have to put the needle down. i've already stabbed myself with it once. i push the sewing aside and let myself cry.
i can still see it so clearly in my mind, the big arched doorway, #2504. i haven't been to Queens in years, but i can feel the marble steps beneath my feet, i can hear the echo as i run upstairs. i can see the no smoking sign, and i can smell the cigarettes leaking out into the hallway. i can see your doorway, Nanny, and i'll never walk through it again. instead, i walk through the memory- still so alive. i touch the molding, i see the spots where paint dripped down and
never let the sickness win by TheCheshireKat, literature
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never let the sickness win
the puncture wounds, raw and vulnerable, the bitemarks of sickness and anger, the venom spread by your accelerating pusle, the creature still lurking!- twisted and deformed into something barely recognizable, squatting in the darkness while the bile rises, sicker and sicker and sicker, the truth comes out like a smoker's lung, blackened and scarred by the lies. reach up to the moon and stars, bathe in the white light like cool water washing away the sweat and dirt and blood. coming closer, ever nearer salvation, reach for it like the pullcord for the basment light. wolf spirit prowling around the edges of the salt circle, protecting you; you
Old Mocha Dick, what a sight you must have been-
I can but imagine the awe in the hearts of those men
as they watched your ghostly flukes slip down into the deep...
I have heard they caught you in the end.
O moon-pale monster, scarred and stuck with pins,
O leviathan, whose silver fury echoes without end
and smites us still as the centuries creep
then watches the wreckage descend-
O fearsome devourer of myth and legend,
your belly filled with the beaks of the kraken-
what a strange collection of trophies you keep,
like the harpoons still stuck in your skin-
O great beast, whose iron will would never bend,
but splintered wooden sh